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Joachim Heijndermans
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Writer, artist, filmmaker, designer, comic book letterer, SFWA member and collector of toys. He/him. https://linktr.ee/jheijndermans.
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Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · Apr 30
Presenting: the Beautiful Beasts imprint, a series of erotic horror, science fiction and fantasy novellas by author Joachim Heijndermans. Each a self contained story of lust with monsters ranging from the fantastical, the macabre and the eldritch.
Books 1, 2 and 3 are out now!
Art Man Carot
Beautiful Beasts logo, depicting of Venetian mask of an animal in a circle with two cursive Bs, colored black, white and red Cover to return the rose, the first Beautiful Beasts book. Colored in monochrome purple, a large beast with a lion-like face and stag antlers embraces a partially undressed woman with long flowing hair. She clutches onto his antlers, wistfully looking at her lover, the beast. Cover to Cove of the Fisherman's wife. Colored in monochrome blue, a Japanese woman looks upon the encroaching octopus arms. Her yukata is partially removed, as a lone tear runs down her cheek. Cover to Beautiful Beasts 3, The Nightstalker’s Mark, by Joahim Heijndermans. Two women coated in a red colored hue hold each other in embrace, looking at one another. One a short haired blind woman with a tank top. The other is a vampiric creature who is nude, her ears pointed and the pupils in her eyes are narrow slits like those of a serpent. Her open mouth reveals a set of fangs, her intent implied to be nefarious. The title of the book is colored with a yellow gradient, with the ‘M’ in Mark similar to a set of fangs. Small dots of Braille writing repeat the title, a reference to the one woman’s blindness.
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Last day of my Beautiful Beasts sale bundle, so if you want to get the first three books in my series of erotic novellas for $8, now's your chance!
#monsterromance #novella #booksky #smut #monsterfucker

Find the bundle on Itch here: itch.io/s/163776/bea...
Cover to return the rose, the first Beautiful Beasts book. Colored in monochrome purple, a large beast with a lion-like face and stag antlers embraces a partially undressed woman with long flowing hair. She clutches onto his antlers, wistfully looking at her lover, the beast. Tropes: beauty and the beast, romance in the rain, preferring the beast, broken beds, romantic scars, prisoner to lover, magical genetalia, predator role play, sapphic experiment. Cover to Cove of the Fisherman's wife. Colored in monochrome blue, a Japanese woman looks upon the encroaching octopus arms. Her yukata is partially removed, as a lone tear runs down her cheek. Tropes: consensual tentacles, sengoku jidai era japan, octopus yokai, literal foxy lady, brutal revenge, evil ronin, slightly benevolent monster, secret sex worker, protective surrogate mother. Cover to Beautiful Beasts 3, The Nightstalker’s Mark, by Joahim Heijndermans. Two women coated in a red colored hue hold each other in embrace, looking at one another. One a short haired blind woman with a tank top. The other is a vampiric creature who is nude, her ears pointed and the pupils in her eyes are narrow slits like those of a serpent. Her open mouth reveals a set of fangs, her intent implied to be nefarious. The title of the book is colored with a yellow gradient, with the ‘M’ in Mark similar to a set of fangs. Small dots of Braille writing repeat the title, a reference to the one woman’s blindness. Tropes: vampire smut, blood drinking, mind control, shape changing, lgbtq romance, emotional abuse, vampire violence, disability & blindness
November 14, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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jheijndermans.bsky.social
So to alleviate some medical costs, I've put my three short story collection up for sale on Itch in a bundle. Get all three #scifi, #horror and #fantasy collections on #ebook for $10!!!

The sale ends today, so pick up over 60 short stories now.

Find the bundle here: itch.io/s/163297/hei...
Cover to All Through the House and other tales from a Random place by JoachimHeijndermans. Black and white art in boxes symbolizing the short stories within. It inclused a dives accosted by tentacles, a bee, an alien eating noodles, a pig, a round drone, a clock with an omega symbol, a mech suit, a digital smiling face, a pod in space and a ouroboros with arms reaching out. In the center, a set of claws pick up a cookie on a plate for santa. Tropes list: weird Santa claus, 26 short stories, worlds last pig, mindfuck prison, apocalyptic zookeeper, kaiju death cult, Christmas in space, televised deathmatches, bored Eldritch god, udon addicted aliens, superhero speeddating Cover to Soft Reboot by Joachim Heijndermans. A power button symbol in the center is surrounded by a collection of small circles with symbols for the short stories within. Topes list: 18 short stories, literate puffins, kaiju survivors guilt, raccoon, imsane orca, sentient bomb, war tourist meets soldier, poison ocean, space travel podcast, poison ocean, owl griffin Cover for the short story collection Rage from a Cage by Joachim Heijndermans, the title in thick bold lettering. On a white background, marred with scratches and damage, is a set of black shapes of triangles and trapazoids, who together form a broken pentagon. Within the middle shapes is the skull from a sabre-toothed cat, its maw open and the broken pentagon appearing as the bar of a cage. The animal is snarling for freedom. Tropes list: 30 short stories, apocalypse parties, desolate worlds, lonely undead, norse god roommates, cat trials, clockwork gunslinger, vengeful robots, sentient zombie viruses, superhero violence, weird experiments
November 14, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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earlronove.bsky.social
Less than 25 days until BE NOT AFRAID releases on Dec 9th!

A deadbeat guitarist's bad night only gets worse when he's thrust into hell, seraphs demanding his sacrifice hot on his heels. His only hope is another angel, one with eyes he used to know.

Pre-order today!
books.earlronove.com/benotafraid
A trope map graphic for Be Not Afraid by S. Jean. In the center is the cover featuring Seth, an angel with pink wings, white hair, and bright eyes leaping across the cover in profile while pink smears the blue background and eyes stare at him. Along the top is a tagline and it reads: "a fast-paced blaze through Hell..." To the sides are the tropes. They are: coy angel wielding a lead pipe, deadbeat guitarist having a bad night, survival horror, m/m, silent hill x sorry we're closed, rotting seraphs hellbent on your death, finding a reason to live, and a pair of eyes you used to know. Along the bottom is a call to action for pre-orders and gives the url, books.earlronove.com/benotafraid.
November 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
jheijndermans.bsky.social
If you have Kobo plus, all my books are available on it, so worth checking out.

(En in het NL, door Kobo staan mijn boeken ook als ebooks op bol.com)
quartzen.bsky.social Sandstone @quartzen.bsky.social · 3d
Kobo is doing a 30 day free trial promotion for their Kindle Unlimited competitor service Kobo Plus for new subscribers (not sure if this is US only), if you like queer indie books, small press SFF, and backlist SFF from large publishers there's a lot to choose from on this service that's not on KU!
Rakuten Kobo
www.kobo.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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asherelbein.bsky.social
Anyway: pornographic art and performance is good, people have a right to the vast majority of their kinks, and it is ridiculous that consenting adults are finding those rights strangled by big tech and payment platforms
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
jheijndermans.bsky.social
17th century revenge tragedy about a very dull woman.

"T'is pity she's a bore"
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
jheijndermans.bsky.social
Hey, just sold a print copy of Soft Reboot! Nice.
If you want to see what the fuss is about, pick it up today, as the Itch sale ends soon.
Cover to Soft Reboot by Joachim Heijndermans. A power button symbol in the center is surrounded by a collection of small circles with symbols for the short stories within. Topes list: 18 short stories, literate puffins, kaiju survivors guilt, raccoon, imsane orca, sentient bomb, war tourist meets soldier, poison ocean, space travel podcast, poison ocean, owl griffin
November 14, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Feed boost 💜
📢📚💙 #DiscountBooks
jheijndermans.bsky.social Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · 21h
So to alleviate some medical costs, I've put my three short story collection up for sale on Itch in a bundle. Get all three #scifi, #horror and #fantasy collections on #ebook for $10!!!

The sale ends today, so pick up over 60 short stories now.

Find the bundle here: itch.io/s/163297/hei...
Cover to All Through the House and other tales from a Random place by JoachimHeijndermans. Black and white art in boxes symbolizing the short stories within. It inclused a dives accosted by tentacles, a bee, an alien eating noodles, a pig, a round drone, a clock with an omega symbol, a mech suit, a digital smiling face, a pod in space and a ouroboros with arms reaching out. In the center, a set of claws pick up a cookie on a plate for santa. Tropes list: weird Santa claus, 26 short stories, worlds last pig, mindfuck prison, apocalyptic zookeeper, kaiju death cult, Christmas in space, televised deathmatches, bored Eldritch god, udon addicted aliens, superhero speeddating Cover to Soft Reboot by Joachim Heijndermans. A power button symbol in the center is surrounded by a collection of small circles with symbols for the short stories within. Topes list: 18 short stories, literate puffins, kaiju survivors guilt, raccoon, imsane orca, sentient bomb, war tourist meets soldier, poison ocean, space travel podcast, poison ocean, owl griffin Cover for the short story collection Rage from a Cage by Joachim Heijndermans, the title in thick bold lettering. On a white background, marred with scratches and damage, is a set of black shapes of triangles and trapazoids, who together form a broken pentagon. Within the middle shapes is the skull from a sabre-toothed cat, its maw open and the broken pentagon appearing as the bar of a cage. The animal is snarling for freedom. Tropes list: 30 short stories, apocalypse parties, desolate worlds, lonely undead, norse god roommates, cat trials, clockwork gunslinger, vengeful robots, sentient zombie viruses, superhero violence, weird experiments
November 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
jheijndermans.bsky.social
Damn. I was trying to do the art for a smaller book, but that part of my brain that turns on a dime now decreed the art is crap.
Gonna have to sit on it for a while.
November 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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shimaira.com
Another sneak peak to the new art for the My Lord special edition 🌶️📚
This drawing got a coloured version too cos my sapphic bestie deserved that for sponsoring the art 🥰🥰
A snippet of a coloured artwork, showing one character with black hair kissing another with red hair in the neck.
November 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
jheijndermans.bsky.social
So to alleviate some medical costs, I've put my three short story collection up for sale on Itch in a bundle. Get all three #scifi, #horror and #fantasy collections on #ebook for $10!!!

The sale ends today, so pick up over 60 short stories now.

Find the bundle here: itch.io/s/163297/hei...
Cover to All Through the House and other tales from a Random place by JoachimHeijndermans. Black and white art in boxes symbolizing the short stories within. It inclused a dives accosted by tentacles, a bee, an alien eating noodles, a pig, a round drone, a clock with an omega symbol, a mech suit, a digital smiling face, a pod in space and a ouroboros with arms reaching out. In the center, a set of claws pick up a cookie on a plate for santa. Tropes list: weird Santa claus, 26 short stories, worlds last pig, mindfuck prison, apocalyptic zookeeper, kaiju death cult, Christmas in space, televised deathmatches, bored Eldritch god, udon addicted aliens, superhero speeddating Cover to Soft Reboot by Joachim Heijndermans. A power button symbol in the center is surrounded by a collection of small circles with symbols for the short stories within. Topes list: 18 short stories, literate puffins, kaiju survivors guilt, raccoon, imsane orca, sentient bomb, war tourist meets soldier, poison ocean, space travel podcast, poison ocean, owl griffin Cover for the short story collection Rage from a Cage by Joachim Heijndermans, the title in thick bold lettering. On a white background, marred with scratches and damage, is a set of black shapes of triangles and trapazoids, who together form a broken pentagon. Within the middle shapes is the skull from a sabre-toothed cat, its maw open and the broken pentagon appearing as the bar of a cage. The animal is snarling for freedom. Tropes list: 30 short stories, apocalypse parties, desolate worlds, lonely undead, norse god roommates, cat trials, clockwork gunslinger, vengeful robots, sentient zombie viruses, superhero violence, weird experiments
November 14, 2025 at 9:42 AM
jheijndermans.bsky.social
Last day of my Beautiful Beasts sale bundle, so if you want to get the first three books in my series of erotic novellas for $8, now's your chance!
#monsterromance #novella #booksky #smut #monsterfucker

Find the bundle on Itch here: itch.io/s/163776/bea...
Cover to return the rose, the first Beautiful Beasts book. Colored in monochrome purple, a large beast with a lion-like face and stag antlers embraces a partially undressed woman with long flowing hair. She clutches onto his antlers, wistfully looking at her lover, the beast. Tropes: beauty and the beast, romance in the rain, preferring the beast, broken beds, romantic scars, prisoner to lover, magical genetalia, predator role play, sapphic experiment. Cover to Cove of the Fisherman's wife. Colored in monochrome blue, a Japanese woman looks upon the encroaching octopus arms. Her yukata is partially removed, as a lone tear runs down her cheek. Tropes: consensual tentacles, sengoku jidai era japan, octopus yokai, literal foxy lady, brutal revenge, evil ronin, slightly benevolent monster, secret sex worker, protective surrogate mother. Cover to Beautiful Beasts 3, The Nightstalker’s Mark, by Joahim Heijndermans. Two women coated in a red colored hue hold each other in embrace, looking at one another. One a short haired blind woman with a tank top. The other is a vampiric creature who is nude, her ears pointed and the pupils in her eyes are narrow slits like those of a serpent. Her open mouth reveals a set of fangs, her intent implied to be nefarious. The title of the book is colored with a yellow gradient, with the ‘M’ in Mark similar to a set of fangs. Small dots of Braille writing repeat the title, a reference to the one woman’s blindness. Tropes: vampire smut, blood drinking, mind control, shape changing, lgbtq romance, emotional abuse, vampire violence, disability & blindness
November 14, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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monstermashzine.bsky.social
We have two more highlights until our next small break, but that doesn't mean we're going to slack off.

Today's preview comes from our amazing contributor @porchtart.bsky.social. There's always something evil lurking in the dark, but who says evil can't be fun?

monstermashzine.bigcartel.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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zoewithasword.bsky.social
We're gonna do a announcement next month--title, plot, cover reveals, etc--but if a sapphic vampire noir series from me, @laurenknight.bsky.social, @jpjordan.bsky.social, @longtalljodie.com and @cerealpancake.bsky.social is enough for you, follow it here

www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...
Coming soon: Unannounced Queer Vampire #1 from DEATHline
TBA. Chicago-set Queer Vampire Noir series.
www.kickstarter.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
jheijndermans.bsky.social
Should a novelette have chapters? Or are they brief enough to just kinda roll through it with a break between scenes?
November 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
jheijndermans.bsky.social
Someone asked me about one of my favorite comics, Thorgal, and asked if they should read them.
To which I said yes………BUT, if they get the English cinebook ones, please let me help put them in the right reading order.
(they reprinted them from the normal books 1-2-3-4-etc to 7-3-5-9 because ARGHHH)
Cover to Thorgal: the Archers, featuring a man in black with a yellow armband and a bow and arrow drawn, as well as a bearded man with a peg leg, a young woman in red with a ruby necklace and a younger man checking out the woman slyly
November 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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thomasha.bsky.social
2025 Eligibility List

passion is my graphic design. art behind the text for Uncertain Sons by @cdsart.bsky.social. thanks in advance if you read (or have already read) any of these this year. much appreciated. will add links or other details at some point maybe.
Thomas Ha 2025 Eligibility List Collection UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES Novelette "Uncertain Sons," Undertow Short Story "In My Country," Clarkesworld "The Cephalophore," The Dark "Old Wells," 3LBE "Cry, the Carob King," BCS "The Patron," Sunday Morning Transport
November 7, 2025 at 12:41 AM
jheijndermans.bsky.social
Seeing a lot of job openings where they look for people skilled in using ChatGPT.

I thought the whole point of GenAI was to bypass the need for skills?
November 13, 2025 at 11:25 AM
jheijndermans.bsky.social
The sale ends soon. I thank everyone who has picked up the bundle as it's helped cut down on some of my medical costs.

Still, the bundle is available for the next two days. If you want to pick up three short story collections for the low price of $10, now's your chance!
jheijndermans.bsky.social Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · 20d
So to alleviate some medical costs, I've put my three short story collection up for sale on Itch in a bundle. Get all three #scifi, #horror and #fantasy collections on #ebook for $10!!!

Find the bundle here: itch.io/s/163297/hei...
Cover to All Through the House and other tales from a Random place by JoachimHeijndermans. Black and white art in boxes symbolizing the short stories within. It inclused a dives accosted by tentacles, a bee, an alien eating noodles, a pig, a round drone, a clock with an omega symbol, a mech suit, a digital smiling face, a pod in space and a ouroboros with arms reaching out. In the center, a set of claws pick up a cookie on a plate for santa. Tropes list: weird Santa claus, 26 short stories, worlds last pig, mindfuck prison, apocalyptic zookeeper, kaiju death cult, Christmas in space, televised deathmatches, bored Eldritch god, udon addicted aliens, superhero speeddating Cover to Soft Reboot by Joachim Heijndermans. A power button symbol in the center is surrounded by a collection of small circles with symbols for the short stories within. Topes list: 18 short stories, literate puffins, kaiju survivors guilt, raccoon, imsane orca, sentient bomb, war tourist meets soldier, poison ocean, space travel podcast, poison ocean, owl griffin Cover for the short story collection Rage from a Cage by Joachim Heijndermans, the title in thick bold lettering. On a white background, marred with scratches and damage, is a set of black shapes of triangles and trapazoids, who together form a broken pentagon. Within the middle shapes is the skull from a sabre-toothed cat, its maw open and the broken pentagon appearing as the bar of a cage. The animal is snarling for freedom. Tropes list: 30 short stories, apocalypse parties, desolate worlds, lonely undead, norse god roommates, cat trials, clockwork gunslinger, vengeful robots, sentient zombie viruses, superhero violence, weird experiments
November 13, 2025 at 10:26 AM
jheijndermans.bsky.social
Last days on the sale. I thank everyone who has picked up the bundle, as your purchase has helped cut down on some of my medical costs.

Still, if you want to pick up my Beautiful Beasts books for the low price of $8, now and tomorrow are your last chances!!
jheijndermans.bsky.social Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · 4d
My Beautiful Beasts sale bundle ends this week, so if you want to get the first three books in my series of erotic novellas for $8, now's your chance!
#monsterromance #novella #booksky #smut #monsterfucker

Find the bundle on Itch here: itch.io/s/163776/bea...
Cover to return the rose, the first Beautiful Beasts book. Colored in monochrome purple, a large beast with a lion-like face and stag antlers embraces a partially undressed woman with long flowing hair. She clutches onto his antlers, wistfully looking at her lover, the beast. Tropes: beauty and the beast, romance in the rain, preferring the beast, broken beds, romantic scars, prisoner to lover, magical genetalia, predator role play, sapphic experiment. Cover to Cove of the Fisherman's wife. Colored in monochrome blue, a Japanese woman looks upon the encroaching octopus arms. Her yukata is partially removed, as a lone tear runs down her cheek. Tropes: consensual tentacles, sengoku jidai era japan, octopus yokai, literal foxy lady, brutal revenge, evil ronin, slightly benevolent monster, secret sex worker, protective surrogate mother. Cover to Beautiful Beasts 3, The Nightstalker’s Mark, by Joahim Heijndermans. Two women coated in a red colored hue hold each other in embrace, looking at one another. One a short haired blind woman with a tank top. The other is a vampiric creature who is nude, her ears pointed and the pupils in her eyes are narrow slits like those of a serpent. Her open mouth reveals a set of fangs, her intent implied to be nefarious. The title of the book is colored with a yellow gradient, with the ‘M’ in Mark similar to a set of fangs. Small dots of Braille writing repeat the title, a reference to the one woman’s blindness. Tropes: vampire smut, blood drinking, mind control, shape changing, lgbtq romance, emotional abuse, vampire violence, disability & blindness
November 13, 2025 at 10:24 AM
jheijndermans.bsky.social
They're great kissing books, so don't pass these up!
maurayzmore.bsky.social Maura Yzmore / Fiona Embers 🎃🎃🎃 @maurayzmore.bsky.social · 2d
Periodic reminder that I also write kissing books

Angsty, spicy contemporary romance featuring heroines who are too much and heroes who can't get enough

SHOOT YOUR SHOT: friends-to-lovers, athlete heroine
SOFT REBOUND: hookup-to-lovers, plus-size rep

Buy online: books2read.com/fionaembers/

📚💙🌶📚
Covers for Mad City Moments series by Fiona Embers
November 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Wishing our friends at Subterranean Press the best of luck while they work with Amazon to get this straightened out. You can also buy their ebooks direct from them at subterraneanpress.com. (Cutting Amazon out of the picture.)
subpress.bsky.social Subterranean Press @subpress.bsky.social · 2d
A quick note on the availability of our ebooks...
Earlier today, we received notice from Amazon that they had terminated our KDP account, through which we publish ebooks, including LOGICAL FANTASY by John Wyndham. I have written to Amazon, including proof of our permission to publish the book. Please accept my apologies that our ebooks are unavailable while I try to sort this out. Sincerely, Bill Schafer
November 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
jheijndermans.bsky.social
I have 14 blank pages left in this notebook for outlines.
What to outline next? One more novel? We'll see.
jheijndermans.bsky.social Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social · 13d
Little post halloween tidbit: ive had this notebook for years, purchased at a Disneypark. It kinda just laid there for years.

Last year, I used it to outline 5 novels, working on a 6th and scribbled concepts for 3 novelettes.

I also plotted out my first short story collection in it.

Thanks Jack
A photo of a black notebook with green ringbands, with an image of Jack Skellington, a stylized skullheaded figure
November 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
jheijndermans.bsky.social
That moment when the story you thought you were writing as a Conan style story is actually a Red Sonja style story...
a woman is sitting in front of a bookshelf and holding her hair and asking what .
Alt: a woman is sitting in front of a bookshelf and holding her hair and asking what .
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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monstermashzine.bsky.social
"Oh, my. What big eyes you have there."
"All the better to watch you squirm in anticipation with!"

Today's Artist Highlight comes from the talented @endoanarchy.bsky.social! If you want to see them in all their glory, go and preorder before 12/12 to get your copy!

monstermashzine.bigcartel.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:36 AM